Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Great God on My Head Phumiphon Adundet,* the Power Coming from the Strength of the Earth, at long last stepped ashore from the flagship Sri Ayuthia onto Siamese soil, every temple bell in the land rang out a greeting...
...prove it last week he was turning his back on his new-found museum home, closing his villa and moving south to the Midi. Like Picasso he had become interested in making pottery. "When I touched the soil, I felt a shock. The earth of the Midi is made for ceramics." He is also considering a commission to decorate a Roman Catholic chapel at Vence near the one that Fellow Artist Matisse (TIME, Oct. 24) is now designing...
Those who got across the border threw their arms around the welcoming nurses, or cried with relief; two women fell to their knees to kiss the soil of freedom. A little boy hugged his teddybear: "Teddy's come all the way from Liegnitz. He and I are going to live with uncle." One little girl, given an orange, had never seen one before, thought it was a yellow potato. The refugees left behind watched silently, too exhausted for envy, too worried for vicarious happiness. When the reading of the British list was ended, only 55 refugees had crossed...
...hereditary corps of workmen, the Sampietrini, have been painstakingly excavating a city of the dead. First discovered during the preparation of a tomb for Pope Pius XI in February 1939, this labyrinth of ancient Roman and early Christian sepulchres has been unearthed, often with bare hands, from the soil with which it was filled by Constantine before he built the first St. Peter's (begun...
During a flight of eloquence in the House of Commons on the prospect of increased duck production, Sidney Dye, Labor member for Norfolk South-West, last week declared: "Ducks greedily devour wireworms and leather jackets, thus ridding the soil of these pests. It may well be that those who eat the ducks can readily assimilate the robust characteristics of these other creatures. If so, may I commend to His Majesty's Ministers the value of ducks and green peas for a regular place in their diet...